Nursing
The following information is an overview of information relevant to the Nursing Program that can be found in the Hartfield Library at Henderson Community College. This information is not intended to be a complete list of such material, but rather is a sampling of some titles that will be helpful and easily found in the Hartfield Library.
“[Nurses] care for ill, injured, convalescent, or disabled persons in hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, private homes, group homes, and similar institutions. Assess patient health problems and needs, develop and implement nursing care plans, and maintain medical records. May advise patients on health maintenance and disease prevention or provide case management.” (O*NET Dictionary of Occupational Titles, 3rd edition, page 276.)
To find information useful for classes in this program, you may look in several places. Our library's online catalog is called Voyager. Using Voyager, you can do a basic search by typing in key words, such as "nursing" or “care plans.” Voyager will show you all the books and audiovisual materials available on the selected topic. You will find that many Library of Congress call numbers on these subjects begin with the letter "R" (e.g. for books on medical terminology, look at books with the call number R 123). If you wanted to browse the shelves in the reference collection or in the circulating collection located on the second floor, the "R" section would be a good place to look. You may also look in the online databases of periodical articles, the hard copy periodicals, the audiovisual collection, or Internet Web sites. Each of these sources of information is explained below.
Nurses are heavily involved in the many and diverse operations of medical facilities. Thus, when Nursing students search, many information sources termed “Nursing and Allied Health” will be of significant value.
If you have questions or need assistance in finding additional materials, please see a librarian at the reference desk or contact the reference desk at 270-831-9767. Email assistance is available at kevin.reid@kctcs.edu.
FINDING BOOKS
To find books in either the reference or circulating collections, use Voyager. When searching Voyager, please remember to limit your searches to Henderson Community College; otherwise the search will find books held in any of the KCTCS libraries. More thorough instructions on the use of Voyager are available in the tri-fold brochure titled “Using Voyager.” This brochure is available at the front of the library.
Subject Headings are key words or phrases used in Voyager to tell you what a book is about. The most efficient and productive searches are those that use Subject Headings. Some of the Subject Headings that are particularly useful for students in the Nursing Program are:
Allied Health Personnel Associate Degree Nurses
Asepsis Methods Practical Nursing
Nursing Process Nursing Ethics
Nurse-Patient Relations Nursing Diagnosis
Nursing Care Plans –Handbooks, Manuals, etc.
Nursing – Planning – Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Patient Care Planning – Handbooks
Nursing Diagnosis – Handbooks
Patients – Positioning – Handbooks, Manuals, Etc.
Nursing – Handbooks, Manuals, Etc.
Reference Books
Reference materials are materials that are created to give you general information about a topic. After you read the information in a reference book, you can search the library for more detailed and extensive information. Hopefully, you will find some good ideas about useful subject headings or key words that are relevant to your topic by looking through the reference books. When you are ready to search for more information about your topic, you can use the library's online catalog, Voyager. Below is a list of titles of some reference books that you might find helpful. Because these are reference books, they cannot be checked out; instead they are to be used in the library.
1. Dorland’s Illustrated Medical Dictionary, REF R 121 .D73
2. Drug Facts & Comparisons (57th edition), REF RM 300 .F33
3. Mosby’s Medical, Nursing and Allied Health Dictionary,
REF R 121 .M89 2002
4. Physician’s Desk Reference (58th edition), REF RS 75 .P5
5. PDR for Nonprescription Drugs and Dietary Supplements (24th edition), REF RM 671 .A1 P48
6. American Medical Association Manual of Style (9th edition),
REF R 119 .A533 1998
7. Nursing Diagnosis Reference Manual (5th edition), REF RT 48.6 .S66 2001
8. Medical Abbreviations & Eponyms (2nd edition), REF R 123 .S569 1997
9. Professional Guide to Signs & Symptoms (4th edition), REF RC69 .P77 2003
10. The Merck Manual of Medical Information, REF RC 81 .M535 2003
Books That Can Be Checked Out (Circulating Books)
Circulating books are books that can be checked out of the library. The circulating collection is located on the second floor of the library. Anyone with a valid library card may check out these books. Below are some titles that may be of interest to students in the Nursing Program.
1. Building A Medical Vocabulary: With Spanish Translations, R 123 .L46 2001
2. Introduction to Health Occupations, R 697 .A4 B33 2004
3. Physician Assistants Guide to Research and Medical Literature,
R 697 .P45 P488 2001
4. Quick and Easy Medical Terminology, R 123 .L47 2000
5. Math for Meds,
6. Henke’s med math, RS 57 .H46 2003
7. Professional Guide to signs and symptoms RC 69 .P77
8. Laboratory tests and Diagnostic Procedures with Nursing Diagnosis
RT 48.5 .C67 2000
9. Nursing Care Plans RT 49 .D64 2002
10. Chart Smart: The A-to-Z Guide to Better Nursing Documentation
RT 50 .C487 2002
11.1,001 Nursing Tips and Time Savers RT 51 .A16 1997
12. Handbook of Nursing Procedures RT 51 .H365 2001
Electronic Books
Many of the library's newest books for the Nursing program are available electronically through the Voyager online catalog. To access these books, simply enter a search in Voyager, and scan the resulting titles. If an e-book is available, the phrase, "[electronic resource]" will appear after the title. Click on the title to read any of the electronic books. You can check the books out for up to four hours. Additional instructions for accessing electronic books are available at the reference desk. Some Nursing titles include:
FINDING PERIODICAL ARTICLES
Students generally find articles taken from magazines and journals to be particularly useful sources of current information. To help students, the Hartfield Library subscribes to a wide variety of periodicals in both hard copy and electronic formats. The articles available electronically are found on a number of databases accessible through the library's web page. For instructions on how to access articles from the specific databases, use the tri-fold brochures available in the front of the library (e.g. "How to Use InfoTrac.")
Printed Periodicals
The following periodical titles are available in the hardcopy format on the library's first floor and are of value to the students of the Nursing Program.
1. American Journal of Nursing
2. Child Health Alert
3. Harvard Health Letter
4. Health
5. JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association
6. Journal of Infectious Diseases
7. Journal of Nursing Administration
8. Journal of Nursing Education
9. Journal of Practical Nursing
10. Mayo Clinic Health Letter
11. Medical Laboratory Observer
12. Nursing
13. Nursing Health Care Perspectives
14. Nursing Management
15. Nursing Outlook
16. Nursing Research
17. Orthopedic Nursing
18. Pediatric Nursing
Online Databases
Each of these databases contains hundreds of full-text articles as they were published in various national magazines and journals. To see which periodicals are available full-text in each database, select that database, go to the message "Title List" and click on it to review the list (in the ProQuest databases, click on “Publication Search”). If you want to read an article from a specific periodical after searching a database, be sure to specify that title during your search.
Please note that each database offers help screens that explain how the search engine of that database operates. These help screens also identify the advanced search options for students who want to fine-tune their searches.
EBSCO Databases
CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Allied & Health Literature)
Pre-CINAHL
MEDLINE
Clinical Pharmacology
Health Source - Nursing/Academic Edition
Health Source - Consumer Edition
PsycINFO
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
Sociological Collection
AcademicSearch Premier
InfoTrac
Health Reference Center Academic
Health and Wellness Resource Center
Expanded Academic ASAP
Academic OneFile
ProQuest
ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health
Career and Technical Education
First Search
MEDLINE
ECO
WorldCat
Audio-visual Materials
Audio-visual materials can come in many forms. Videos, DVD's, CD's, filmstrips, and slides are all audio-visual materials. At the Hartfield Library, many of our audio-visual materials are DVDs and videos. The audio-visual materials are located on the first floor, in room LB 102. The titles below may be of interest to students in the Nursing Program.
1. Physiology: Muscles and Bones, AV DVD QP 303 .M88 2004
2.The Virtual Body: The Immune System, AV DVD QP 34.5 .V578 2002
3.Nurses: Pediatrics, AV DVD RT 42 .N872
4.NCLEX Review 3500: Study Software for NCLEX-RN, AV DVD RT 55 .N45 2005
5. Performing Head-to-Toe Assessment, AV RT 48 .P47 2000
6. Performing Respiratory Assessment, AV RC 735.5 .P47 2000
Internet Web Sites
Internet sites are becoming increasingly useful. Many sites—especially those associated with professional organizations like the AAMA (American Association of Medical Assistants)—offer connections to information such as articles, bibliographies, and job search engines. A few such useful web sites are listed below. Please be aware that electronic addresses do change frequently. If an address listed below becomes obsolete, use an Internet search engine like Yahoo or Google to find the new address for the organization.
1. http://www.nursingworld.org
American Nurses’ Association
This site offers a search the site feature. It also offers links including ANA Convention, Work Place Advocacy, and Online Journal of Issues in Nursing. This site also offers an extensive menu of articles related to such topics as bioterrorism and disaster response, safety and quality, immunization, and needlestick.org. Several online continuing education opportunities are presented as well.
2. http://www.nln.org
National League for Nursing
This is a part of the Johnson and Johnson national Nursing Program. This site provides information on the following: Public Policy Action Center, Research and Professional Development, Research Grants, and Professional Opportunities. It also provides conference information and information about online nursing courses.
3. http://www.ncsbn.org
National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Inc.
The mission of the NCSBN is to lead in nursing regulation by assisting members to promote safe and effective public health and welfare. The site includes information concerning standards for licensure testing, nursing regulations, resources, and testing services.
4. http://www.ama-assn.org
The American Medical Association (AMA).
This site offers a search the site feature. The mission of the AMA is to help doctors help patients and provides information on such topics as medical advocacy, a wide variety of professional resources, and news in the medical field.
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